Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would like to nominate as Men of the Year three who gave the American people a passing feeling of integrity in Government: Archibald Cox, Elliot L. Richardson. William D. Ruckelshaus...
Dean, in turn, had already talked at length to G. Gordon Liddy, one of the leaders of the Watergate burglars and counsel at the time for Nixon's reelection finance committee. Fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox had sought this tape because, he had advised the court, "this was the first opportunity for full discussion of how to handle the Watergate incident. The inference that they [Ehrlichman and Haldeman] reported [to Nixon] on Watergate and may well have received instructions is almost irresistible...
Fundamentally Opposed. Yet the President continued to carry on his seemingly risky attack upon the credibility of former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, who had quit rather than carry out Nixon's orders to fire Prosecutor Cox. Nixon told the Governors that there was a "difference of 180°" between what Richardson had said publicly about opposing the firing of Cox and what he had told White House lawyers at the time. Strangely, the White House still insisted that Nixon was not accusing Richardson of having lied...
Obviously puzzled at a similar Nixon assault on the integrity of Cox, Charles Alan Wright, the President's counsel during the tense negotiations that led to the Cox dismissal, last week refuted Nixon's version. While the President had claimed that the White House was unaware of Cox's total rejection of a proposed White House "compromise" plan on the tapes until the end of that fateful week, Counsel Wright told TIME "We knew as early as Tuesday that Cox was fundamentally opposed on several points to the plan. It was absolutely clear by Thursday...
...that front, there is yet a fresh potential impasse developing, of the very kind that set off the Saturday Night Massacre. Cox was fired by Nixon for his refusal to stop pursuing White House documents through the courts. The papers Cox wanted included White House reports and memorandums on the Watergate breakin, the ITT affair, campaign contributions, and operations by the White House plumbers; they were first asked for by Cox last July, five months ago. Soon after he took over from Cox, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski asked for the same documents and gave the White House ten days...